Very nice work. I don't realy know exactly why, but i actualy find important appeal to scene which represent nature and other green stuffs. Maby it remind me that i spend too much time at staring at my flat screen: nevertheless, this one is realy nice!

huh, looks like my email is being flakey in updating me about this... sorry it took this long to reply to you all.

EdHarriss, T[iNs]S, HapZungLam, Niphilim-
You're definitely right, there is a definite flatness to a few areas, and the bark could use more roughness. Ironically, the thing that caused this problem is the very thing that enabled me to complete this project: Photoshop. This guy was on the burner for a long time, and the deadline for Expose 2 gave me the kick I needed to get it done. All the leaves were done in PS, which is why a lot of them look flat. (Now that I have time, I could map those leaf images onto geometry...) And the bark... well the bark was part of why he was sitting around for so long to be completed. I just absolutely could not get the whole dragon's texture to render/map perfectly. You know the story- looks good except for a few spots; fixing those spots messes up the ones that were good. So there's a lot of touch-up of the bark in PS, too.

Flex Giddy, kim young hwan-
It started ages ago with a gods and demons challenge, and I thought it would be a good excuse to make a dragon I found some misc webpages that talked about 4 elemental dragons: wood, water, fire, and air (i think). I did sone sketches of a water dragon, but the wood ones were better.

Napa!m, Ufu'uk, Lord Dowswell-
Hate to break it to ya, but the sun streaks are PS :( (I can get close to the same in LW, but time was short, and I was having trouble getting it 'just right')

tatiana-
Thanks for remembering This post was mainly because I saw the new proceedures for submitting images for the gallery here. I'm not sure if I changed much, but the last things I messed with are the dust motes and carving my name into the rock at the bottom left.

arno barbo-
It took me a year in the desert to learn how important nature is to me (especially green, healthy things)

ashrumm-
Thanks! I did many, many sketches before even starting, and more all the way through.

And to all the rest-
Thanks for all the compliments and critiques! They are appreciated!

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